Citas de David Riesman

• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

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  Freedom, Men, Class

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.307, Yale University Press

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• Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

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  Cambia

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

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  Occupation, Today, Consumers

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

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  Communication, Media, Gossip

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• It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

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  Clase, Querer, Camino

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

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  Mean, People, Manners

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• Los medios de comunicación, lejos de ser una conspiración para embotar el sentido político del pueblo, podrían considerarse una conspiración para disimular el alcance de la indiferencia política.

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  Media, People, Empathy

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

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  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

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  Meaningful, Play, Meaningful Work

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, p. 333, 1954.

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• Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

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  Looks, Questioning, Sentences

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• Si algo permanece más o menos inalterado, será el papel de la mujer.

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  Roles, Remains, Ifs

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• It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

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  Generations, Ethics, Indolence

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers

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• Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

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  Taken, Men, Hype

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• If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

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  Medicine, Enjoy Life, Want

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• The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.

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  Mean, Might, Majority

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.

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• America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

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  Humorous, America, Chinese

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• Nuestra sociedad ofrece muy poco en materia de reeducación a quienes han sido arrancados de su cultura tradicional y expuestos de repente a todos los encantos de la cultura de masas; incluso las iglesias que siguen a los paletos a la ciudad recurren a menudo a la misma "venta dura" que los publicistas y los políticos.

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  Education, Mass Culture, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.165, Transaction Publishers

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• It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

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  Zest, Energy, Groups

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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• El suburbio moderno es el producto del automóvil, la semana de cinco días y el "horario bancario" de las masas.

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  Car, Bankers, Week

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.244, Transaction Publishers

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• En Estados Unidos apenas se percibe un declive de la exuberancia, que se deja sentir sobre todo entre los más instruidos y los acomodados en una pérdida de apetito por el trabajo y quizá incluso por el ocio.

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  Loss, America, Enthusiasm

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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• Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

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  Men, Frustrated, Jam

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

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  Men, Culture, Debt

  David Riesman (1966). “Individualism Reconsidered, and Other Essays”

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• The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

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  May, Novelty, Preoccupation

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• Hay pruebas de que los jóvenes de los grandes bufetes, aunque siguen trabajando más que la mayoría de sus clientes, no se glorían de trabajar de noche y los fines de semana como antes.

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  Hard Work, Weekend, Night

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

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  Wife, Culture, Today

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers

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